“How can a prosperous flourishing country which gained it’s independence from mother England in 1966 have fallen into such a Political, Economic, Social & Financial morass in 47 years?”

by Wily Coyote

How can a prosperous flourishing country which gained it’s independence from mother England in 1966 have fallen into such a Political, Economic, Social & Financial morass in 47 years?

Under the leadership of the British the country flourished, economically, financially and socially. It can be argued that this flourish was on the backs of black slaves, indentured white slaves and an aristocratic over bearing British master. The point is that the country did flourish and was looked on as the JEWEL of the Caribbean.

During the initial years of independence the leaders of the country were black and white, British educated and schooled in old world ethics. Eventually locally educated and raised individuals assumed the day to day responsibilities, the political entity controlled by the blacks and the economic identity controlled by the whites. Today in 2013 these black/white control distinctions are becoming somewhat less distinct in the economic forum as the non-whites are now responsible for the majority of lower/mid level commerce. The non-blacks still control the majority of the larger corporate end of the economy which may or may not reside within the country.

The education, political, economic, social and financial learning of all these new controlling groups was heavily influenced by the Caribbean Culture, both in Barbados and surrounding countries.

Caribbean people are well known for their “laid back attitudes”, poor work ethics, liming, put it off till tomorrow attitudes. This is not necessarily to be taken as a bad thing and in fact is good for ones longevity providing you do not interfere with thy neighbours wife.

However this attitude can get you into trouble very quickly economically should you not keep close attention to exactly what’s happening in the global environment that we deal in today.

Barbados economy has moved from being agricultural based to one of tourism and off shore banking, both of which the country is not in control. Barbados has attracted a large off shore banking economy by offering LOW TAX rate shelters for higher tax jurisdictions.

While the world’s economy was robust these other higher tax jurisdictions did not pay much attention to these off shore entities. Now that the world economy is sluggish these higher tax jurisdiction countries are looking at laws whereby they can recover monies being sheltered in no/low tax havens. These higher taxation countries merely change their tax rules such that off shore tax havens are no longer viable and countries such as Barbados are immediately “out of business”. What I’m saying is that Barbados does not have any direct control of it’s two major economic providers. Yes they can provide incentives, advertise etc., however all these initiatives will have minimal effects to the bottom line.

Barbados is a fragile country of no more than 300,000 people trying to survive in a world dominated by countries with rich resources and populations that are galactic.

Barbados has lost sight of how to maintain it’s economic and social infrastructure. Barbados to survive must protect it’s limited natural resources, assuming it’s not already to late.

Barbados has now reached the point of DO or DIE. The Die part is easy; the DO part however will be painful and last for generations.

The BLAME game has to STOP and BAJAN’s have to step up to the plate and take ACTION.

3 responses to “What happened to the Bim I knew?”

Hey Wily , I don’t think it is DO or DIE, I think we are DEAD. It is time for recovery, 300.000 people should have their say, down tools and make the change and lets us move on, for we ain’t goin nowhere right now.

We have the worst government in history in Barbados, & Barbadians are like sheep, lost without a leader, don’t know where to turn. You ever heard about The Piper, that’s what happening now, the Piper plays the tune every night On DLP, CBC TV, and bajans just dancing over a precipice.

PLANTATION DEEDS FROM 1926-2013 AND SEE MASSIVE FRAUD ,LAND TAX BILLS AND NO DEEDS

Party Animal@ It all about land fraud and you can see no taxes paid by fraud land owners , stolen by the Ministers and lawyers same crooks
Beatrice Henry and Violet Beckles land over 200 to 300 plantation taken with out payment,
Barbados have been taking and not paying from the estate Will.
Free land ran for a while and to build up. For the government dont pay means the People dont have to pay the taxes for they are not the owners, 90 % of the title deeds of Barbados are not clear title they are fraud title with not deeds only tax bills printed out by Mr Ford at land tax and build on the land by C,O,Williams and other like Mark Cummins , Running elections in 2 weeks , with paid voter 200 to 300 per vote , Now the Minister being paid with BMW and RR. google or study the truth , We have the plantation deeds to prove it ,Buy and dont invest in Barbados until and unless the records are right all land have an owner , think nothing else ,
We are the owners of the deeds.IN Fraud and PONZI they trust and not law.